How would you react if a burglar entered your home when your children are present?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I grew up in a suburb right outside of the city. Last one in at night locked the door. We never locked our doors in college. My kids are growing up with unlocked doors. No guns, no living life in fear. It’s not worth it.

Might be time to look into living outside the US. Good luck if you stay here.

[Anonymous]

We had this situation.
My husband tackled the intruder and I called 911.
DC Police were there in less than 3 minutes.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We had this situation.
My husband tackled the intruder and I called 911.
DC Police were there in less than 3 minutes.

Glad your husband was brave, apparently able-bodied and fit, and perhaps had some skill in mixing it up with a miscreant. Glad there was only one criminal and that they were either unarmed or did not get a chance to use their weapon. Glad your husband seems not to have caught any loathsome diseases from going hands on with the invader.

[Anonymous]

I think about this all the time because dh travels for work and we have two little kids who sleep in separate rooms. We do have a German shepherd and I know how to use a gun. My plan would be to get to my 5yo and throw her out the window to run to our best friends house down the block. Then get my 2yo and jump out the window with her. I've even practiced opening the windows/screens quickly.

[Anonymous]

Those of you jumping out windows, are your bedrooms on the ground floor? I would be more scared of serious injury from jumping out a second story bedroom window.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I think about this all the time because dh travels for work and we have two little kids who sleep in separate rooms. We do have a German shepherd and I know how to use a gun. My plan would be to get to my 5yo and throw her out the window to run to our best friends house down the block. Then get my 2yo and jump out the window with her. I've even practiced opening the windows/screens quickly.

If your home is invaded, you will not have time to go through these conniptions. Let the dog deal with the intruder. You arm yourself, call the police, grab child no. 1 and take her to child no. 2, where you fort up and wait for rescue. The idea that children are going to be the ones running for help in the wee hours while mom is flinging their sibling through a window is comedic. Your plan is appropriate to a fire, not a home invasion.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I will get my gun first. Won’t hesitate to shoot.

so you'd like go down stairs and shoot them proactively? If they were on their way out the door with 3 ipads they'd grabbed from your counter...would you still shoot them? or is it more if they started coming to where you were you'd shoot them? some people seem so eager for an excuse to shoot someone when most burglars are just taking the $1000 uppababy out of the garage to resell and aren't armed or a threat to you

I’m a gun owner and will use a gun. I would not shoot someone who stole and is exiting my home. I will, however, shoot them upon entry or if they turn around and advance towards me. Weapon or no weapon, I have the right to shoot if they enter my home. I don’t care if they have a weapon or not.

Once you break into someone’s home, you forfeit your life.

Wow. You are sick. You are a criminal.

No. They’re a criminal who broke into my home. They shouldn’t be breaking into homes.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:OP here. We have thought about getting a gun, but decided against it, for the following reason: in the past six months at my daughter's stressful elite private school three children committed suicides (unrelated to each other), each of them with the gun of their parents.

Besides, if the gun is kept fairly secured and hidden, there might not be enough time to get it.

I don’t mean to sound insensitive but those kids would’ve found another way to commit suicide. I believe majority of suicide deaths are via hanging, not guns. It was an accessible and much easier way, but I think they would’ve found an alternative way if a gun wasn’t accessible.

Wow…forget insensitive, you sound incredibly ill-informed and ignorant. Go do some reading on this

PP here. My sisters ex-boyfriend committed suicide by hanging. A kid in my elementary school committed suicide by hanging. A friends friend committed suicide by hanging.

If someone wants to harm themselves, they will do it by any means necessary. A gun is a much easier and painless route, but many will commit suicide via hanging or other ways. What I said was completely true. You’re ignorant to logic.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I think about this all the time because dh travels for work and we have two little kids who sleep in separate rooms. We do have a German shepherd and I know how to use a gun. My plan would be to get to my 5yo and throw her out the window to run to our best friends house down the block. Then get my 2yo and jump out the window with her. I've even practiced opening the windows/screens quickly.

If your home is invaded, you will not have time to go through these conniptions. Let the dog deal with the intruder. You arm yourself, call the police, grab child no. 1 and take her to child no. 2, where you fort up and wait for rescue. The idea that children are going to be the ones running for help in the wee hours while mom is flinging their sibling through a window is comedic. Your plan is appropriate to a fire, not a home invasion.

This. Such naivety and ignorance. These are unfortunately the people who become victims to an intruder. I will use my gun.